Mobile Fire-Rescue are on the scene of a fire on I-10 Texas Street and Canal were a tanker truck has overturned. Photo: Mobile Fire-Rescue

MOBILE, AL (WALA) -

A truck driver is dead following a massive fire on I-10 Monday.

The truck flipped on the Virginia street off-ramp on eastbound I-10. The crash triggering massive flames, and thick black smoke around 11 Monday morning.It took more than an hour to knock the blaze down.

Smoke and flames could be seen for miles.

Mobile Fire Rescue Crews tried to contain it before it reached I-10.

Police shut down the on and off ramp, diverting traffic to one lane on the interstate.

A frightening scene for people like Kenneth Jones.

"I ain't never seen nothing like this before. I was in the house and I heard the loud bang and I came and seen the big smoke so I come up this way," Jones said.

Anthony Cox drives trucks for a living. He said watching this tanker burn, was jarring.

"It's a fish hook curve. Very sharp so speed could have been a factor. I've been in a rollover before and it's not a good scene. I've been in an accident where trucks have actually rolled over and it's very scary. Drivers please slow down. Be careful. It could cost you your life," Cox said.

Authorities are working to determine who was driving the truck. It had a Texas license plate. A Mobile Fire Rescue spokesperson said papers inside the truck showing where it was headed were burned.

Freedom of speech is temporarily a thing of the past at Prichard City Council meetings. For 30 days, the council has suspended public comment. Council members say the suspension will allow them much needed time to do the city's business.

Freedom of speech is temporarily a thing of the past at Prichard City Council meetings. For 30 days, the council has suspended public comment. Council members say the suspension will allow them much needed time to do the city's business.

On the eve of an expected vote by the Mobile City Council on giving $10 million dollars in city money to help pay for a new stadium for South Alabama, two county commissioners are talking about South's request for $10 million from the county.

On the eve of an expected vote by the Mobile City Council on giving $10 million dollars in city money to help pay for a new stadium for South Alabama, two county commissioners are talking about South's request for $10 million from the county.

Police believe the 16-year-old suspect is the slain woman's brother and that he had been living with his sister and her husband, a Savannah police officer, Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley told a news conference.

Police believe the 16-year-old suspect is the slain woman's brother and that he had been living with his sister and her husband, a Savannah police officer, Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley told a news conference.